S.Africa's MTN to launch legal challenge to regulatory rate cut

JOHANNESBURG

JOHANNESBURG Feb 11 MTN Group said on
Tuesday it would pursue 'legal options' against South Africa's
telecommunications regulator over a plan to halve the rates
operators can charge each other to use their networks.

"MTN has exhausted all avenues of engagement with the
regulator on this matter and is left with no alternative but to
pursue its legal options," Zunaid Bulbulia, the chief executive
of its South African unit, said in a statement.
(Reporting by David Dolan; Editing by Ed Cropley)